On young Woolwich's last birthday, Mr. Bagnet certainly did, after observing on his growth and general advancement, proceed, in a moment of profound reflection on the changes wrought by time, to examine him in the catechism, accomplishing with extreme accuracy the questions number one and two, "What is your name?"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

In real life, on the contrary, we find, that the efficiency of conscience is generally considered such a vanishing quantity that all peoples have bethought themselves of helping it out by means of positive religion, or even of entirely replacing it by the latter.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

(3) Spread and spike switch points in the track so that they will not move, or place rocks or close-packed dirt between the switch points.
— from Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services

[the following dressing made of] PEPPER, RUE, ONIONS, SATURY, THE PIG’S OWN GRAVY [and] EGGS THROUGH THE EAR [2] AND OF PEPPER, BROTH AND A LITTLE WINE [make a sauce which is served] IN THE SAUCE BOAT
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

He thought moodily of Paul Riesling, of their youth together, of the girls they had known.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Though the current phrases of the New Testament and of the Fathers of the Church, declaring this world, its wealth, loves, and pleasures, to be all the kingdom of Satan, had become cant in the mouths of priests ruling over Europe, it had never been cant to the humble peasantries.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Sir, As frequent mention is made in public papers from Europe of the success of the Philadelphia experiment for drawing the electric fire from clouds by means of pointed rods of iron erected on high buildings, &c., it may be agreeable to the curious to be informed, that the same experiment has succeeded in Philadelphia , though made in a different and more easy manner, which is as follows: Make a small cross of two light strips of cedar, the arms so long as to reach to the four corners of a large, thin silk handkerchief when extended; tie the corners of the handkerchief to the extremities of the cross, so you have the body of a kite; which being properly accommodated with a tail, loop, and string, will rise in the air, like those made of paper; but this being of silk, is fitter to bear the wet and wind of a thunder-gust without tearing.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

It has been found that, by means of powerful refraction, objects at great distances, and round the back of a hill, or considerably beneath the horizon, are brought into sight.
— from The Spirit Land by Samuel B. (Samuel Bulfinch) Emmons

No; but we have not made our philosophic religion out of the superstitions and prejudices of a certain school.
— from Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

With the exception of Gen. Marshall's speech in the case of Jonathan Robbins, it stands preëminent in our political literature as a model of profound research, of thorough argumentation, and of overwhelming strength.
— from Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell by Hugh Blair Grigsby

a separate listing for Hispanic is not included because the US Census Bureau considers Hispanic to mean a person of Latin American descent (including persons of Cuban, Mexican, or Puerto Rican origin) living in the US who may be of any race or ethnic group (white, black, Asian, etc.); about 15.1% of the total US population is Hispanic Uruguay white 88%, mestizo 8%, black 4%, Amerindian (practically nonexistent)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

It is perhaps necessary to define the above use of 'idealization' as that modification of photographie reality observable in all true art.
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg

Nationality: noun: American(s) adjective: American Ethnic groups: white 77.1%, black 12.9%, Asian 4.2%, Amerindian and Alaska native 1.5%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.3%, other 4% (2000) note: a separate listing for Hispanic is not included because the US Census Bureau considers Hispanic to mean a person of Latin American descent (including persons of Cuban, Mexican, or Puerto Rican origin) living in the US who may be of any race or ethnic group (white, black, Asian, etc.)
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Our "self-made men," who govern the country by their wealth and influence, have found their place by adapting themselves to the particular circumstances in which they were placed, and not by studying the broad maxims of "Poor Richard," or any other moralist or economist.—For such as these is meant the cheap cynical saying quoted by Emerson, " Rien ne réussit mieux que le succès ."
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The maxima of pressure recorded on the 11th in various parts of the country, were all found to give a reading of 30·90 at the mean sea level.
— from The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. XLIX April-October 1850 by Various

There was a wonderful light in his face, a something that seemed to reach back through centuries that were gone—and in this moment Philip thought of Marechal, of Prince Rupert, of le Chevalier Grosselier—of the adventurous and royal blood that had first come over to the New World to form the Great Company, and he knew that of such men as these was Jean Jacques Croisset, the forest man.
— from God's Country—And the Woman by James Oliver Curwood

Whether their cause is mental or physical, real or imaginary, I must trouble myself about your tears,” answered Lyon Berners, with grave tenderness.
— from Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth